House hunting in Chicagoland

I'm in Chicago this week visiting Tarzan and sort of house/condo hunting. Unfortunately within 18 hours of being here I came down with a damn head cold so that is making me feel like crap.  I did however meet my realtor yesterday and looked at 7 condos. I only liked 2 and both of them had an issue - the one that I liked the most was absolutely adorable, awesome paint colors, in great shape, but didn't have a basement. The other one was really nice - huge rooms, a finished basement, but it was kind of far from Tarzan's office and the yoga studio I hope to go to when I move here.  Most of the other ones were total dives and looked nothing like the pictures posted online.  Plus some of them had renters in them right now and OMG they live like total slobs. I cannot believe how some people live - it's disgusting.   Tarzan found a great condo last week, but he failed to ask if they would accept cats and when I look on the Craigslist ad for that one, it doesn't say that pets are allowed. However it doesn't say that they are not allowed either, so Tarzan left her a message.  I hope to see a few others before I go back to Michigan on Saturday.  We had been waiting to see if Tarzan was going to Germany for training, but that appears to be on hold, so we are not going to wait. I hope we can find something before winter is upon us. We haven't tried too hard to rent out our house in Michigan and now Tarzan isn't sure he wants to rent it at all. We may just keep it and have 2 houses. 

It's been a while

It has been more than a month and a half since I've written on my public blog.  Sorry! I can't seem to keep up these days.  I will be posting some pictures of our trip to Florida soon, and trying to make more of an effort with blogging.  Just to fill you in briefly on the last 6-7 weeks:  attempted an FET with our only remaining DE embryo in August and got the call as we were driving to the clinic that the embryo died during the thaw process.  I've been working through my grief and getting back on the "living child-free by force" path of life.  I'm not going to go into any detail on this blog, but suffice it to say that I am doing much better. I'm enjoying life and still making plans for our big move to Chicago.  No news on a moving date yet, but I hope we are moved by January.  Tarzan and I had a fabulous vacation in Florida last week, and I am hoping to go with him to Germany in Oct/Nov when he is supposed to go for work.  That's all for now.